By DOMINIC ARTHUR, Staff Reporter.
So here we are. We’re on the final stretch of road before graduating and leaving behind everything to go pursue something that’s not guaranteed. Graduating college is as much of a “necessary evil” as it is a “necessary good” (If that’s a thing…). This is the time where anxiety kicks in and you feel as if you’re drowning because you don’t know what’s next or where to and your small window of figuring it out is becoming smaller and smaller with each week.
For some, graduating is the greatest thing that could happen. They’re happy to finish up the two (or four) years that they’ve spent in what some would consider a manifestation of hell. For some, graduating college is one of the most eye-opening things that could happen because you boil it down the one question — now what?
Once you’ve realized the turn your life will take, you begin to scramble for something in hopes that it’ll work itself out and everything will be decent again. You begin to feel this sense of panic as you don’t know what to do or how to go about doing it. You’ve adjusted (hopefully well) to coming to class every morning from making the tedious drive and becoming acquainted with the people around you.
Sure, there are some that you can’t wait to never see again, but, for the most part, you find yourself feeling that you’ve built relationships with people that you could potentially never see or talk to again. That’s the sad truth about college and life itself. Most people do remain in touch after college (most); but for some, those people tend to fade in the background as your life takes focus on your career, the want to start a family, and anything else that’s adult-like.
Graduation time is where you spend the most time reflecting on the four hell’s: What the? Why the? How the? and insomnia-causing When the?
And with those hell’s comes nights where you try to figure out and plan what’s next. There’s always a veil that you can’t see through when it comes to life. Hopefully, if you’re ducks are lined up right, everything works out for you. And the overwhelming, choking feeling of graduating becomes a reward road to be on.
